The countdown to the next big Xbox & PS4 game has begun

The countdown to the next big Xbox & PS4 game has begun

A teaser website for the expected post-apocalypse role play sequel has gone live.

It reads: "Please stand by" and has a countdown clock.

Fallout 3 was an Xbox and Playstation classic back in 2008.

It was sent in a ruined future after a bitter war between the Americans and China went nuclear.

Experts are predicting a glimpse of the new game tomorrow followed by a full revealed at maker Bethesda's E3 press conference in two weeks.

Details on Fallout 4 - if it does indeed end up being called that - are thin on the ground. The most substantial leak to date suggested that it would be set in a post-apocalypse version of Boston and the surrounding area.

Scripts, character descriptions and references to numerous locations in the series were spotted. The leak also suggested that Fallout 4 will have a voiced main character, with both male and female options available.

CLASSIC: Fallout 3 was an Xbox and Playstation classic back in 2008 [PH]

Locations mentioned include the Commonwealth, the Fallout universe's version of Massachusetts, and the Institute, the post-apocalyptic rendition of MIT after years of rot have tarnished the M and the T away.

The game is believed to have been in development since at least 2013 after Bethesda moved on from hit title Skyrim to its "next project".

A year ago Eurogamer.com interviewed Fallout: New Vegas' lead designer Josh Sawyer and asked him what he wanted to see in Fallout 4.

"Fallout games are best when the choices are - and this applies to role-playing games in general, but Fallout is a more desperate world - more agonising," Sawyer explained.

"They feel more appropriate to the post-apocalyptic genre. So I hope that whatever twists and turns the story takes, it's more nuanced than a black-and-white choice."